Vanity case



w. G. KENDALL VANITY CASE Filed Feb. 27, 1922 IIVVEIVTOR A TTORNEYS Patented Mar. 6, 1923.

WILLIAM G. KENDALL, or NEWARK, m JERSEY.

VANITY cesn.

Application filed February 27, 1922. Serial No. 539,450.

To all whom it may. concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM G. KENDALL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Newark in the county of Essexand State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Vanity Case, of which the:

following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates'to improvements in vanity cases.

In my copending application for patent for vanity case, Serial Number 537,273, filed on February 17 1922, I have .shown one novel and effective means of retaining a rouge or other cosmetic carrier in position in a vanity case without using adhesives or complicated locking devices.

This invention has to do withanother novel means of retaining a cosmetic carrier in place in a somewhat different style of case an object of the invention being to provide a vanity case which will securely retain a carrier in place on the bottom of the case, and to provide a novel form of carrier so constructed that it will not interfere with the cosmetic packing operation.

A further object is to provide a case which will be neat and attractive in appearance, and inexpensive to manufacture.

With these and other objects in view, the invention'consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of my improved vanity case;

Figure 2 is a view in section therethrough on the line 2-2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a fragmentary plan view, illustrating a slight modification; and

Figure 4: is a fragmentary view in section on the line 44 of F igure 3.

Referring in detail to Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings, I have used the reference numeral 1, to indicate a vanity case. This case is preferably circular in shape, although the same might be of oval or other curved formation and is formed of some light flexible metal. Immediately above the bottom the case is provided with a pressed out annular groove or well 2.

3 represents a cosmetic carrier such as a rouge plate or compact powder receptacle which is adapted to be securely held within the vanity case. This receptacle is provided with an inwardly inclined side wall or flange 4. Tongues 5' form continuations of the up- 7 per edges of the wall. I preferably provide three of these tongues spaced at equal distances apart. The tongues are bent or folded back lying along the outer inclined face of the wall 4 and terminating in relatively short radially projecting lugs 6 coincidental w1th the plane of the bottom of the case and located in the annular groove 2.

When inserting the rouge plate into the case two of the lugs 6 are first inserted into the groove. When the plate is then pressed upon the flexibility of the case or box 1 permlts the other lug 6 to snap into the groove. The box quickly springing back into its normal shape securely locks the rouge plate against movement, or in any event, limits its upward movement in the case.

In Figures 3 and 4, I have illustrated a slight modification wherein a vanity case 7 is provided with an annular groove 8 similar to the groove 2. A cosmetic carrier 9 is provided with three bendable lugs 10 struck out of the bottom of the plate at equal distances apart. sides of the plate and are adapted to be bent downwardly and outwardly until they are in the radially extending position shown in the drawings and in parallelism with the plate bottom. The operation of inserting this cosmetic carrier in the case is substantially as above described.

When using the modified form of carrier, however, it is necessary to cover the bottom of the carrier with paper or other material 11 to prevent the cosmetic 12 from passing through the openings which are formed by bending out the lugs 10. It is to be noted that in both forms of the device it is not necessary that the lugs be of spring material since the flexibility of the case itself permits the cosmetic carriers to be readily forced into position. It is also to be noted that th lugs in each case are so arranged that the These lugs are struck adjacent the cosmetic packing operation usually per-.

alterations as fairly fall Within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

I claim: I

1. A vanity case having an annular groove therein adjacent its bottom, a cosmetic carrier on the bottom of the case, and lugs fixed to the carrier located in a parallel plane to the bottom of the carrier, said lugs extending into the groove.

2. A vanity case having an annular groove therein adjacent its bottom, a cosmetic carrier on the bottom of the case, lugs fixed to the carrier located in a parallel plane to the bottom of the carrier, said lugs extending into the groove, said lugs being radially disposed, and said case being sufliciently flexible to permit the forcing of the lugs into the groove.

3. A vanity case having an annular groove therein adjacent its bottom, acosmetic oargroove.

memes rier in the case, and radially extending lugs integral with the carrier located in the 4:. A vanity case having an annular groove thereln ad acent 1ts bottom, a cosmetic carrier in the case, and radially extending lugs integral with the carrier located in the groove, said case being sufiiciently flexible to permit the forcing of the lugs into the groove.

5. A vanity case having an annular groove thereinadjacent its base, a cosmetic carrier in the case including side Walls, tongues forming continuations of the side Walls, said tongues being bent back upon themselves and lying along the outside of the carrier Walls, and said tongues terminating in radially extending lugs located in the groove.

, WILLIAM G. KENDALL. 

